Ocean Visions Governance

Leadership Team

The Leadership Team is an advisory body assembled to activate and mobilize the Ocean Visions Network. The team sets the overall strategic vision for the Network, establishes priorities, reviews progress and products, and facilitates collaboration and communication with external parties.

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Brad Ack

Chief Executive Officer at Ocean Visions

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Clark Alexander

Director of the University of Georgia’s Skidaway Institute of Oceanography

Jim Barry

Jim Barry

Senior Scientist and Chair of the Research Division at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)

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Annalisa Bracco

Associate Chair for Research and Professor of Oceanography and Climate in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech

Jennifer Dianto Kemmerly

Jennifer Dianto Kemmerly

Vice President of Global Oceans at Monterey Bay Aquarium

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Emanuele Di Lorenzo

Chairman & Co-Founder of Ocean Visions and Professor at Brown University

Rob Dunbar

Rob Dunbar

Professor at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

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Daniela V. Fernandez

Founder and CEO of Sustainable Ocean Alliance

Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert

Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Marine Science at UC San Diego

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Paul Holthus

Founding President and CEO of the World Ocean Council

Tod Hynes

Tod Hynes

Sr. Advisor for Climate & Energy, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship & Sr. Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez

Professor of Biological Oceanography and chair of the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at UCSB

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Gary Mitchum

Professor of Physical Oceanography and the Associate Dean in the College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida

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Kate Moran

President & CEO, Ocean Networks Canada

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Rick Murray

Deputy Director and Vice President for Research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Christopher Pearce

Christopher Pearce

Principal Marine Geoscientist, National Oceanography Centre

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Millicent Pitts

Chief Executive Officer and Director, The Ocean Exchange

Akash Rastogi

Akash Rastogi

Chief Strategist, Ocean Frontier Institute

Mark Shimamoto

Director, Global Outreach Programs, American Geophysical Union

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Rohit Shukla

Founder and CEO, Larta

Eric Siegel

Chief Innovation Officer, Ocean Frontier Institute & Executive in Residence, Creative Destruction Lab – Oceans

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Dawn Wright

Chief Scientist of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)

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Anna Zivian

Senior Research Fellow at Ocean Conservancy

Board of Directors

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Paul Bunje

Co-Founder and President of Conservation XLabs

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Emanuele Di Lorenzo

Chairman & Co-Founder of Ocean Visions and Professor at Brown University

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Nancy Knowlton

Sant Chair in Marine Science Emerita, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

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Fiorenza Micheli

Co-Director of Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions and of Hopkins Marine Station, and the David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science at Stanford University

Julie Pullen

Julie Pullen

Partner and Chief Scientist at Propeller Ventures and Adjunct Research Scientist at Columbia Climate School

Tod Hynes

Thomas (Tod) Hynes is a Senior Lecturer in the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. He teaches Energy Ventures, a graduate-level course that guides teams of business, engineering, science, and policy students through the process of creating new energy ventures.

Hynes is also the founder and president of XL Hybrids, a company which addresses one of the largest and most immediate challenges in energy – rapidly reducing dependence on petroleum for transportation. XL Hybrids has developed a proprietary hybrid electric powertrain which is cost effective for commercial fleets and can be installed in both new and existing vehicles in four hours. This hybrid powertrain is rapidly getting adopted by Fortune 500 companies and uses components from leading suppliers like Johnson Controls. XL Hybrids has also developed an advanced telematics platform which wirelessly collects vehicle operational data to optimize the performance of hybrid technology in real world applications. Hynes raised over $50 million to launch this venture, and assembled and manages a cross-disciplinary team.

Hynes is the cofounder of the MIT Clean Energy Prize and is on the Advisory Board. He also works with and advises startups and established companies active in energy. Hynes was the director of alternative energy for Citizens Energy for five years and launched the company’s wind development business. He successfully developed and sold over 230 MW of wind projects, and expanded the company’s wind business to include a project pipeline of over 2,000 MW. In addition to directing project acquisition, development, management activities, and operations, he assessed and developed new alternative energy business opportunities in energy efficiency, waste to renewable fuel, GHG offset projects, low head hydro, energy storage, and other sectors of the energy space.

Prior to joining Citizens Energy, Hynes was the principal director and cofounder of Strategic Energy Systems, a consulting and engineering services firm focused on distributed power generation and wind power. He also was the cochair of the Energy Committee for CERC, the organization that “greened” the 2004 Democratic and Republican National Conventions,. He has served on the steering committee of the Boston Climate Action Network since 2003. Hynes holds a BS in management science from MIT.